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Regular price reduced from £15.00 to only £5.00 plus postage. Orders may be placed throughout December until 1 January, 2014. Available to Society members only. DECEMBER: The Lincoln ‘Crying Christmas’ Ceremony The Mayor commands that this Christmas everyone in the city must make merry and do charitable work or be thrown into a dungeon full of noxious reptiles. Happy … Read more
Regular price reduced from £15.00 to only £5.00 plus postage. Orders may be placed throughout until 10 October, 2013. Available to Society members only. NOVEMBER: Common Conditions Sedmond and his sister Clarisia are advised by the vice Conditions to flee the court, as the King seeks their death after banishing their father Galiarbus from Arabia. But the siblings become separated in … Read more
Regular price reduced from £15.00 to only £5.00 plus postage. Orders may be placed throughout until 10 October, 2013. Available to Society members only. OCTOBER: The Wisest Have Their Fools About Them Monsieur Silly wants to woo Urina and enlists the help of the witty but penniless student Musophilus. But Musophilus wants Urina for himself. Order you copy today and find … Read more
Regular price reduced from £15.00 to only £5.00 plus postage. Orders may be placed throughout until 10 October, 2013. Available to Society members only. SEPTEMBER: Elizabeth Cary The Tragedy of Mariam Mariam thinks that her husband Herod is dead. But she’s not too upset as he murdered her grandfather and brother. When Herod actually turns up alive, Salome, Mariam’s sister-in-law from … Read more
Malone Society Book Of The Month Regular price reduced from £15.00 to only £5.00 plus postage. Available to Society members only. JULY: The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll Cruel fathers with rebellious children, mixed-up fairies, and love potions gone wrong. Sound familiar? There’s more confusion in the forest in this hilarious comedy! The Society’s edition is … Read more
Malone Society Book Of The Month Regular price reduced from £15.00 to only £5.00 plus postage. Available to Society members only. JUNE: William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream __________ The Society’s edition is a photofacsimile reproduction of the Henry E. Huntington Library’s copy of the First Quarto of 1600 (STC 22302), which was printed, from Shakespeare’s … Read more
Malone Society Book Of The Month Regular price reduced from £15.00 to only £5.00 plus postage. Available to Society members only. MAY: R. Wever Lusty Juventus Listen to Good Counsel’s advice and go to a sermon, or have breakfast with Abominable Living instead? Find out which one Juventus chooses in this sixteenth-century interlude. __________ The … Read more
Malone Society Book Of The Month Regular price reduced from £15.00 to only £5.00 plus postage. Available to Society members only. APRIL: John Lyly’s Gallathea Every five years Lincolnshire holds a Virgin Beauty Contest. But the winning prize leaves a little to be desired – being offered as a sacrifice to Agar the sea monster … Read more
Malone Society Book Of The Month Regular price reduced from £15.00 to only £5.00 plus postage. Available to Society members only. MARCH: John Heywood’s The Play of the Weather If you think 1,281 lines of conversation about the weather sounds like the most polite play ever, then think again! You’ll be surprised by what the … Read more
Malone Society Book Of The Month Regular price reduced from £15.00 to only £5.00 plus postage. Available to Society members only. Orders may be placed throughout the entire calendar month FEBRUARY: Collections XV Have you been wondering how you’re going to celebrate the 400th anniversary of George Chapman’s The Memorable Masque? Well, if you weren’t able to attend the Renaissance Men … Read more